HKR 2300 Chapter 1: HKR2300 - Chapter 1

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Human Kinetics and Recreation
• Course: HKR 2300
• Professor: Anthony Flood

Document Summary

Human motor development: process through which one passes throughout life. Changes in our movement ability through the lifespan: academic field. Motor development: academic field, study of changes in human motor behaviour over the lifespan, the processes that underlie these changes, and the factors that affect them. Importance of motor development: to understand the way people normally develop movement skills, help individuals improve or perfect movement performance, to understand the way special populations develop movement skills, help special populations improve or perfect movement performance. Why study motor development: to gain knowledge that enables us to: Diagnosis of cases that warrant intervention and remediation. Create developmentally appropriate activities allowing for optimal teaching and learning of movement skills for people of all ages and all ability levels. Concerns human intellectual development: affective domain. Concerned with the social and emotional aspects of human development: motor domain. Development of human movement and factors that affect that development: physical domain.